For the past decades in Ghana and most Sub-Saharan African countries in
Africa, poverty, war, and hunger have never been the only challenges facing the good people of the land are abounded with natural mineral resources, and water has been a threat to human survival in most parts of Africa, which Ghana is not excluded from.

Ghana's first President Dr Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, initiated the construction
of artificial dams across every district in Ghana, not solely for irrigation but to provide access to at least portable water for the people of Ghana.

Ghana abounds with a lot of water bodies, but successive governments have
woefully failed its people in providing the necessary mechanisms for making
water accessible to its people in Ghana, and across Most African states.

Sometimes, the construction of roads across the length and breadth of the country is much more expensive than laying a pipeline to supply portable water to the people.

Some years back, when the Guinean worm epidemic became rampant in most parts of Ghana and Africa, it was more of a killer disease than even HIV/AIDS, TB, and others.

Years gone by, and still Ghana and most African countries are still crawling to find antidotes to solving the perennial water crisis.

Ghana- Africa is blessed with perennial rainfalls and a lot of lakes, rivers, and waterfalls; alas, what do African leaders need from God to provide water to their people?

Research shows more than a million people die in Africa due to drought and lack of water; water is life.

Most African leaders broke big deals with European countries just to extract Africa- Ghana's rich minerals, but always forget to fix Africa- Ghana's water crisis.

In Ghana, the only thing you will hear is borehole, forChrist'st sake, how many communities can survive on untreated water from a common borehole?

How many farmers can depend on a borehole for irrigation farming?

It's like African leaders are failing their people, and thirst is killing Africans.

In Ghana alone, we have water bodies like the River Volta, the River Pra, the River Densu, the River Afram, the River Oti, the River Okonbra, the Birim River, Black VolLake Bosomtwetswe, and many others.

Apart from these rivers, we have natural waterfalls across Africa and Ghana.

In Ghana, Boti Falls, Wli Falls, and other waterfalls are only used by tourists
destinations, forgetting the other socio-economic benefitsof Ghanaians and
Africans can derive from such natural water bodies.

It is time now for our African leaders to make easy and accessibility to portable water accessible to all its citizens because they have no excuse to fail us.

The River Nile flows from as far as Egypt to downstream Africa, but most of the Sub-Saharan African countries cannot even get portable water to drink.

In Ghana, before the 2016 Election, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by Nana Akuffo Addo promised a one village one Dam water project, a campaign promise that won the admiration of all Ghanaians because Ghana was facing a serious water crisis then and even up till now in Ghana.

He woefully failed, which contributed to their disgraceful defeat in the 2024 Ghana General Elections.

Parts of most urban areas in Ghana are still suffering from daily water problems, with higher prices of yellow gallons of water commonly referred to as "Kuffour gallon", a water crisis that befell the ex-President John Agyekum Kuffour's Presidency administration when he won the 1996 Ghana general election.

And to Ghana's newly elected President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama,
President, please, see that you have no excuse to fail Ghanaians from getting portable water daily.

President, in Greater Accra, we have the River Volta, in the western and central regions, l we have the Densu, even if the Ankobra and others are polluted by the Galamsey menace, River Afram remains unpolluted, likewise the Black Volta and River Volta in the Greater Accra region of Ghana, having its estuary at Ada.

If railway lines can be constructed across the length anbreadthth of the country just to explore and extract our gold, lithium, um and mineral resources, how much would it cost us to lay pipelines connecting all our great rivers and all other water bodies in Ghana that are not affected by the Galamsey in Ghana?

The excuses of galamsey is enou,gh and thus this is the time we Ghanaians take a proper look at making portable water accessible to all Ghanaians.

From the north to Southern Gha, some rivers remained unpolluted, and President, you have no excuses for constructing artificial dams by drawing water from all these water bodies to create artificial dams for irrigation and portable water to feed your people.

The Afram plains, Volta, Western, and the northern belt are the food hubs of Ghana.

There are portable water sources that can feed Ghanaians both for drinking and for irrigational purposes.

President Mahama, you have no excuses to fail us if the NPP government failed their one village one dam projects.

President Come to even Ashaiman, Dawhwenya irrigation project, and Katamansman-madeke dams in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, and you would realise the effort of Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah, cin onstructing three vast artificial dams for irrigation farming and for domestic use.

Why can't we, as Ghanaians and Africans, emulate these efforts?

What about artificial reservoirs in every region in Ghana to tap rainwater for domestic use, or build reservoirs to tap underground well water in each region?.

Every year, Ghaspendsnts millions of cedis in relation to solving rain and flood disasters across the nation, monies that can be better put to collect these abundant natural waters to solve the perennial water crisis in Ghana.

The President's excuses for Galamsey may be too much.

We have the rivers, rain, and waterfalls in Ghana that can solve our perennial water crises, and this is the time to act now because you have the track record and your massive Kpong water works expansion project under your first regime can't be underestimated.

We know you can do better.

President John Dramani Mahama, your legacy remains forever, but until you
resolvthe e Ghana rural-urban water crisis, future generations have no hope, perhaps to die out of drought and thirst. Long live the resident, Long live Ghana.

#Lets stop Galamsey now.

#Water is life.

#President Solve the Ghana water crisis now!